Judicial Coup in Pakistan

[Awesome]

I think Contempt of court would entitle the court to Jail him or fine him. To disqualify a person as Prime Minister is strange. The only grounds on which they can do that is that he is not qualified to be an Member of Parliament (Pakistan equivalent) because of the election technicalities.

Article 63 g clearly states he can't be member of Parliament for 5 years from the date of his release.

I think the Judiciary has overstepped its authority and infringed on the constitutional rights of the Members of Parliament to elect their leader.

Constitution states he can't be member of Parliament, since he was no longer member of parliament he can't be their leader. They have followed the constitutional SOP and no overstepping has occurred.

Also they didn't issue the disqualification notice, they ruled that he was in violation of article 63 g as a convicted criminal and stood disqualified since Apr 26th, the Election Commission of Pakistan issued him the disqualification notice in light of the ruling.

 

[lem34]

Instead of giving resolutions they should have made a constitutional amendment that "Yousuf Raza Gilani may break the law", then Article 63 g may not have been violated.

SC did not take any action against his title of PM, they ruled that he was in violation of article 63 g of the constitution that the parliament has made. So he was removed him from member of Parliament by the ECP and since he was removed from Parliament he stopped being leader of parliament.

 

[RiazHaq]

It's nothing short of a coup, regardless of the technical explanations offered to justify it. Most jurists around the world find such explanations contrived to justify an unprecedented act of removing a duly elected prime minister who had the confidence of the parliament.

So why is it that the majority of the people appear to be welcoming it? Is this situation any different than the welcome extended to military coup leaders who overthrew incompetent and corrupt civilian governments in the past? And if corruption is the key issue, then why doesn't CJ fix his own judiciary first. It is ranked by TI as the third most corrupt institution...worse than customs. Going by TI's assessment, the Pak military is among the least corrupt in Pakistan. Why shouldn't they take over instead of letting CJ call the shots? Let's ponder these points.

 

[tarrar]

CJ is not getting the job done he has only got the half job done. Who will charge him of massive corruption he has done not only him his entire family with his in laws are involved in massive corruption who will charge of that? CJ is just bullshitting now, CJ is also having enough evidence against PPP, PML-N as well but he is not acting. It has been proved that a game was played to over throw CJ & all the culprits are in his sight but he is not acting against them he is quiet.

Mr. CJ you had given your verdicts on many cases related to politicians but no one listened to you & you didn’t even try to force them to obey you. The only thing you are doing is saving massively corrupt Democracy which has only brought pain, hate & destruction to Pakistan.

This is what I have to say for this dumb CJ, If you can’t get the job done then get lost & let our Pak Army come in, you are blocking their way to save Paksitan.

You are a complete joke & a complete FAILURE.

 

[RiazHaq]